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...would have been a farmer, working in the lush wheat fields and fruit orchards of the Shomali Plain around Bagram. Instead, at 27, he has seen six years of combat. With his high-set cheekbones, goatee, checked shawl and round woolen cap he bears a passing resemblance to Ahmad Shah Massoud, the assassinated commander who assembled these forces. In a conventional army Allah Mahmad would be a captain. Here he's called commander, a hard-earned rank denoting his seniority not over some alphabet-soup unit in a regimental chain of command but instead over a specific band...
...explosions light the night sky to the south of Jabal-us-Seraj--U.S. air strikes that have bolstered the confidence of these men. "Since the beginning of the American attacks, there have been no Taliban air attacks on our positions, and shelling from their artillery has lessened," says Fazel Ahmad Azimi, the Northern Alliance commander of Kapisa province, north of Kabul. "Most of the Taliban artillery has been pulled back from front-line positions either into the Koh-i-Safi hills or for the defense of Kabul. And in those firebases that remain, the artillery has been dispersed...
...recent e-mail: "Sometime in this war I expect we will see videos of U.S. prisoners having their heads cut off." In conventional battle, the Taliban's soldiers would not scare the Army football team. Their air force is destroyed, they have few heavy weapons, and, says Ali Ahmad Jalali, a former colonel in the Afghan army, they are so undisciplined that in past battles, "they have rushed to the front line to share the glory and spoils." The U.S. Army would exploit snafus like that in a flash...
...explosions light the night sky to the south of Jabal-us-Seraj?U.S. air strikes that have bolstered the confidence of these men. "Since the beginning of the American attacks, there have been no Taliban air attacks on our positions, and shelling from their artillery has lessened," says Fazel Ahmad Azimi, the Northern Alliance commander of Kapisa province, north of Kabul. "Most of the Taliban artillery has been pulled back from front-line positions either into the Koh-i-Safi hills or for the defense of Kabul. And in those firebases that remain, the artillery has been dispersed...
...Most startling was the premature retirement of trusted friend Lieut. General Mahmoud Ahmad, chief of the formidable Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, widely regarded as the country's invisible government. As a staunch patron of pro-Taliban policies, Ahmad is thought to have opposed Pakistan's new alliance with the U.S. Musharraf had reason to fear that segments of the ISI might thwart promised cooperation with U.S. intelligence. And it is said that Musharraf hit the roof when an ISI-linked jihad group devoted to wresting Muslim Kashmir from Indian control took responsibility for a blast in the Indian city...